Breath Is Everywhere: Conversation with Linnéa Gad, Ariana Kalliga, and Maëlle Ebelle

Time & Location

Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Time: 6:00–8:00 p.m.

Location: Liu Shiming Art Foundation, 15 E 40th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10016

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About the Event

On the occasion of the exhibition of works by Linnéa Gad and Liu Shiming at the Liu Shiming Art Gallery, this conversation brings together artist Linnéa Gad; curator and researcher Ariana Kalliga, Amant; and Maëlle Ebelle, gallery director and curator at the Liu Shiming Art Foundation.

As the artist featured in the exhibition, Linnéa Gad reflects on her artistic approach, formal research, and the questions that run through her practice, in dialogue with the work of Liu Shiming. Ariana Kalliga offers a critical and contextual perspective, shedding light on the aesthetic, cultural, and historical issues that emerge from this artistic encounter. Maëlle Ebelle, curator of the exhibition, guides the discussion by opening up avenues of reflection on notions of transmission, temporality, and the circulation of forms.

Together, they weave a multi-voiced reflection on contemporary artistic practice, intercultural dialogue, and the ways in which works resonate across generations and geographies.

About Speakers

Linnéa Gad is a visual artist from Stockholm, Sweden. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2022. Selected solo exhibitions include Return of the Mollusk at Astor Weeks, New York (2024); Shoals with Billion Oyster Project (2023); and Erratics at Spencer Brownstone, New York (2019). Her work has been shown at The Jewish Museum, New York; the Lenfest Center for the Arts; and SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, among others. Gad is a recipient of multiple grants from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and was shortlisted for the Frankenthaler Climate Art Awards in 2022.

Ariana Kalliga is a curator whose work focuses on media, research-based practices, and the relationship between infrastructure and ecology. She is currently Curatorial Assistant at Amant, Brooklyn. Previously, she has held roles at the Museum of Modern Art, the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and the Norman Foster Foundation, and has contributed to programs at e-flux Screening Room, Triple Canopy, and other institutions. She edited Artist-Run Dialogues (2022) and holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College.